ARMY PICKS NU FOR LAB SITE
Military to conduct tech research
A highly coveted military research lab — the last of four the Army plans to establish — will call the Bay State home.
Northeastern University’s George J. Kostas Research Institute in Burlington has been selected as the final regional hub for the U.S. Army’s Research Laboratory.
The focus of the four laboratories is for academic institutions to enhance soldier and battlefield technology capabilities. Speakers at the event cited cybersecurity, advanced materials for soldiers in the field and modern mobile command posts as fields of study.
The ARL, based in Maryland, now has campus partnerships with the University of Texas in Austin, the University of Southern California and the University of Chicago.
Gov. Charlie Baker, U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward J. Markey, U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton and representatives from Northeastern, the Department of Defense and the Army were on hand for the official announcement yesterday.
“If you take a look at the arc of all the work that’s been done, which has been spoken about already, on the next generation of supporting more fighters and our military and our national security, nobody plays out of their weight class the way Massachusetts does,” Baker said.
“We must keep technology and the pipeline for technology full,” said Maj. Gen. Cedric Wins, commanding general of the Army Research, Development and Engineering Command.
Warren vowed to ensure financial support for the mission of the ARL. “You can’t do this work if you don’t have the resources, and I just want to say our team is committed to getting the resources,” Warren said.
The lab’s mission is to “discover, innovate, and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power.”